I'm speaking from personal experience of never really seeing it in London to working in a Scottish school last year (and now on supply) and seeing violence against adults regularly. I've looked up the stats but more interested in what people are actually seeing. Hoping I've just been unlucky

Can any other Scottish primary teachers illuminate me on violence in their schools? I trained in England & moved back to Scotland last yr to a scl with lots of violence towards adults. Thought I was unlucky with the scl but now doing supply & seeing it again. Someone please reassure me it's unusual🙏

SNP told universities they could 'over-recruit' student primary teachers despite job shortages Campaigners call for postgraduate primary teacher training scheme to be ‘halted altogether’

Why am I not surprised? 🥲
They're just recruiting more people for the opportunity to be unemployed!
www.scotsman.com/education/sn...

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

📢The Guardian is now officially on Bluesky

@theguardian.com

Great thread - I've only seen snippets of potential Ofsted changes so it was good to see more context.

Not sure I love the look of the potential report card 😬 this particular aspect doesn't seem like an improvement at all

I knew I wanted to work in education but wasn't really sure in what capacity. Teaching seemed like the obvious option in that regard so gave it a try and really liked it.

Ofsted’s latest grading proposals.

United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere Water company claims information is not in the public interest despite widespread pollution of UK waters

One of UK's biggest water firms in legal battle to block release of environmental information on treated sewage being discharged into Windermere in Lake District.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I know I previously taught in London for five years but moved back to Scotland last year for personal reasons. It has been a tricky balance between living here because it's better for my personal life but challenging for my career

I quite like Ruby's Worry. The illustrations are really nice in that the worry gets brighter and more vibrant as it grows and the background becomes black and white. Helps to show the kids how we can become overfixated on our worries in quite a simple, child friendly way

Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

Thank you - I appreciate that. It's tricky in Scotland because there is a shortage of teaching jobs so to stay in the career it will be a slog with many temporary, insecure contracts but today reminded me I do actually like the job. Hopefully it will be worth it 🤞

Did my first day of supply today and it was so lovely! After a year in a really tricky school, I might have given up on teaching altogether if today had been bad. It has given me hope that maybe I might have a future in teaching

Afghan family refused UK visas to join son, 13, evacuated from Kabul Exclusive: Home Office rejects application from family who were separated from son in chaotic 2021 evacuation

13 year old Ahmad’s family are in hiding in Afghanistan. He escaped with his uncle & aunt when Kabul was evacuated 3 years ago.

The Home Office rejected their application for family reunion.

This is what causes desperate journeys in small boats. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

First September in 6 years that I won't be going into the classroom. It feels very strange but excited to start a Masters in Education alongside some supply work around my timetable #edusky

Yeah, but what do you mean by 'smart-casual'?

Families may not get first choice of early years places, Labour warns Bridget Phillipson warns of impact of ongoing staffing shortages.

I refuse to read the ed sec in The Sun 🙄 but this piece explains what she said. There's no way primary schools can help them fulfill the 2025 offer because that's for babies of 9 months old plus. #EYFS www.eyalliance.org.uk/news/2024/08...

Just had a look at the quiet posters feed. What a good idea!

Sleep meditation 🙄 which involved every staff member lying down on mats in the hall with blankets. Spent the entire time stressing about all of the stuff I had to do. Although I have to admit that it was funny when a staff member actually fell asleep and started snoring verrry loudly 😅

All of a suddenly my feed just fell apart and I wasn't interested in any of it. Couldn't see anyone I followed, was getting 4 ads in a row and the posts I was seeing were really random. Bluesky feel so much more like old Twitter 🙌and I'm really enjoying it

Amazing, thanks!

I'm still catching up on how to use bluesky but like the idea of different feeds so I can turn off work stuff when I'm on holiday. How did you set up the journalist/news feed?

Absolutely! Got this at my own parents evenings every year and it was never said as a positive. Being 'quiet' hasn't done me any harm or prevented me from becoming a teacher/following my chosen career path. It's an unnecessary negative when there are other things to mention like you say

I’ll miss this unique stage of a social media platform’s development where we welcome new arrivals as if we’re a 9 year old child talking to another 9 year old child on their first day at school after having just moved to the area. "Now, this is where the toilet is. And that is where you do a wee."

I don’t want to go back to the bad place so if you’re part of the edu-exodus & looking for people to follow, I’m going to start a little thread of some familiar faces from edutwitter already posting here.

Please tag people to this thread as I know it’s tricky to get started when you first join.👇🏼

Just moved over from X. Suddenly nothing on my feed was interesting anymore but it seems to be because everyone is here 😊